Ok ok ok I snorted and starting giggling really hard at the "Serious? HA!" cake. What the H-E-double hockey stick? I also enjoy the seagulls on the Bat Man cake. I see some very angry children destroying that thing.

well you know at that age the terrible twos are just winding to a close, and they're just gearing up for the serious 5's. So yeah this cake a no batman references what so ever.... HAHAHAHA, Well, hello beautiful, you look scared...

Yes, I'm with the folks who think that the Dark Knight's Joker is just a few decades too mature for a 4-year-old. Seriousness itself is too mature for a 4-year-old, let alone sarcastic use of the concept.

You know, I just don't think I'd give a 4-year-old a Joker cake, especially with the caption "Why so serious?" Granted they won't understand but wheee that's just disturbing.

The last cake gets -10 points for the Bat....Man lettering, but the flock of bats reminds me of the very cool opening animation for "The Batman" animated show. Not too bad (at least not as bad as the others!).

Hey Jen! Totally unrelated to today's cakes, but I did find the perfect house for you and john. Right here on Lovelylisting.com: http://lovelylisting.com/2009/10/the-stairs-are-not-ada-all-dalek-accessibility-compliant.html

and thanks again for the laughs you are obviously "tonight's entertainment"

It is odd that they used the plastic shields on the first cake, er cookie, and they couldn't draw on the Superman logo right.

I mean the actual thing is right there how could they not use it? Since they are obviously already using licensed stuff on it I blanking on what the problem is here. That's the big irony of cake one. The messed up the Superman Logo while using the LOGO!!!!!!

Hey all, I'm the 4 year old's mother- I can assure you he did not see "The Dark Knight". He just happens to love Bat Man and the Joker! No emotional scarification done, I promise. Honestly he could have cared less about what his cake looked like, he was in it purely for the presents. Thanks for the concern!

I didn't read all comments so forgive me if I am repeating. I have an explanation for the grey Bat . . . Man cake. A plastic decoration goes in the center, but it has to be sold separately. My wife ordered a "WALL-E" Cake for my son that looked similar. Some blue, some brown, some words, some random bits of icing. Then they sold us a plastic Wall-e and Eve "separately." Once they were positioned on the background of the cake, the whole thing . . . well, looked like crap, but the boy enjoyed the plastic toy and ate the cake.

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